Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowles was replaced by Perry Christie , who had been dismissed as Minister of Tourism in 1984 [ see p.33401 ] and subsequently elected as an independent MP . |
| 2 | On Dec. 29 Kibaki , together with John Keen , a former Assistant in the Office of the President , and Eliud Mwamunga , who had been dismissed as Minister of Works , Housing and Physical Planning in 1988 [ see p. 36136 ] announced the launch on Jan. 2 of the Democratic Party . |
| 3 | On Sept. 9 it was announced that the only Romanian Cabinet official of Hungarian nationality , Deputy Minister of Culture Andro Horvath , had been dismissed as part of an efficiency drive . |
| 4 | A month after the wedding , he had lost the municipal election at Shoreditch and been dismissed as Director of Propaganda by Mosley . |
| 5 | Jagan , 75 , once a hardline Stalinist , had first led the PPP to an election victory in 1953 , in the pre-independence period , but had been dismissed as Leader of the House of Assembly , when the UK government suspended the Constitution in the face of perceived " communist subversion " [ see pp. 13152 ; 13177 ; 13239 ; 13523 ] . |
| 6 | Fallon and Christopher Danaher , 33 — both from Wembley , Middlesex — had been stopped on suspicion of kerb crawling in West London . |
| 7 | Thousands of the films and publications have been incinerated as part of a year long clampdown on the trade . |
| 8 | Had the plane been recalled on account of bad weather and plunged into the sea ? |
| 9 | Many voices are heard in favour of more women running for office , and Emily 's List , a group that funds only Democratic women running for office , has seen its membership grow by more than 300 per cent since the Hill-Thomas hearings . |
| 10 | These assertions , which would of course be very difficult to demonstrate in a literal or historical sense , are justified as part of Pareto 's general scheme of the equilibrium of social systems , which rests on a social-psychological basis : ‘ The principle of my sociology rests precisely upon separating logical from non-logical actions and in showing that in most men the second category is far larger than the former ’ . |
| 11 | Since the effects of the damage are largely restricted to language , the disruption can not affect the whole brain , so in that sense we are justified in thinking of the brain as consisting of functionally independent modules . |
| 12 | Further bars are placed on top of the joists , and 19mm Gypoc plank is screwed to the underside , the floor is 19mm Gypoc plank laid in the channel , with floor boards screwed to the channel flanges |
| 13 | Timbers are placed on top of the existing roofing , secured through the existing roof covering into existing supports . |
| 14 | The whole church is based on a skeleton framework , the supporting roof poles are placed on top of the intersecting ground sills and there are cross beams on top of the poles . |
| 15 | These are placed on top of a complete pudding basin cake made in the normal way . |
| 16 | Kenya 's hydro-electric resource potential is some 700 MW but construction of the 140 MW Kiambere dam has been delayed by lack of finance and will not be available until at least 1988 . |
| 17 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |
| 18 | If the terms and conditions are altered as part of Newco 's rationalisation of the business , employees may be entitled to resign and claim constructive dismissal . |
| 19 | Demonstrations of Prestel are given as part of the information skills courses and pupils have the opportunity to try out the system . |
| 20 | In the following account , details are given for preparation of high quality thin sections by automatic and semi-automatic means . |
| 21 | Her expositions to the inquiry are given on behalf of Ridgeway Consultants . |
| 22 | These awards are given in recognition of outstanding services to children . |
| 23 | 1.5.3 such other fitting out works as the Tenant shall [ reasonably ] require ] The tenant 's works may of course be far more extensive and the above works are given by way of illustration only . |
| 24 | IN THE run-up to Denmark 's referendum on the Maastricht treaty on May 18th , enthusiasts for a united Europe have been paralysed by fear of offending Danish voters . |
| 25 | God had long been banished in favour of any number of petty little sects , clinging to tattered bits of faith ; they could be tolerated , since they formed no collective alternative to the consumer society on which organized science depended so heavily . |
| 26 | The amounts charged are treated as part of the net cash flow of the business and are available for use as transfers from fixed assets to current assets and possibly back again , in whatever way is most beneficial to the business . |
| 27 | The amounts charged are treated as part of the net cash flow of the business and are available for use as transfers from fixed assets to current assets and possibly back again , in whatever way is most beneficial to the business . |
| 28 | Secondly , paralinguistic features of the ‘ vocal effect ’ type are treated as part of intonation , and it is not made sufficiently clear how these are to be distinguished from prosodic features . |
| 29 | ( Under the SGA and the UCTA " trading " stamp redemption contracts are treated as sale of goods contracts . ) |
| 30 | These 4,505 persons are treated as representative of persons considered responsible for crime during the mature colonial period . |